RE: page-n-columns Characteristic in Jade

["Zahn, Lee A." <Lee.Zahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Toby>I've just noticed that you've declared the initial value as
being 2
	Toby>(should be 1).  This is an error which might lead to your
problem (the
	Toby>style engine will see that setting the characteristic to 2
isn't
	Toby>changing anything, and so won't write it into your output).
Does it
	Toby>work if you change it to 1 above?

	Interesting thought. I tried it with the initial value of 1 without
success. 

	 I'm beginning to think the problem  must be more basic in nature.
I'm running the 1.1.1 version of jade.  I simply downloaded the binary
distribution as I'm running on NTWS 4.0.  My input file is an extremely
simple xml file like this: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
 <report><testtext>blah blah blah </testtext></report>

 with a dsl file like this:

<!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN" [
<!ENTITY amp "&">
]>

(root                           
    (make simple-page-sequence
        left-margin:            1in
        right-margin:           1in
        top-margin:             1in
        bottom-margin:          1in
        footer-margin:          .5in
        center-footer:          (page-number-sosofo)
        (process-children)))

(element (testtext) 
(make simple-page-sequence
	page-n-columns:			2
  (process-children)))

I run Jade from the command line like:
	jade -d abc.dsl -t rtf abc.xml

The resulting abc.rtf file does not have the cols directive. Anyone have a
thought?  Could someone try these same input and dsl files and see if I've
got some sort of environment problem?  Thanks. 

Lee Zahn
lee.zahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Toby Speight [SMTP:Toby.Speight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 17, 1998 9:30 AM
> To:	dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: page-n-columns Characteristic in Jade
> 
> 
> Toby>I've just noticed that you've declared the initial value as being 2
> Toby>(should be 1).  This is an error which might lead to your problem
> (the
> Toby>style engine will see that setting the characteristic to 2 isn't
> Toby>changing anything, and so won't write it into your output).  Does it
> Toby>work if you change it to 1 above?
> 
> 
> Lee> Lee A. Zahn <URL:mailto:Lee.Zahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 0> In article
> 0> <1F946E0C26C0D111A77300805FE676A72FD3B9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> 0> Lee wrote:
> 
> Lee> 	Using the actual "page-n-columns"  name made no difference.
> 
> Lee> (declare-characteristic PNC "UNREGISTERED::James
> Lee>    Clark//Characteristic::page-n-columns" 2)
> 
> I've just noticed that you've declared the initial value as being 2
> (should be 1).  This is an error which might lead to your problem (the
> style engine will see that setting the characteristic to 2 isn't
> changing anything, and so won't write it into your output).  Does it
> work if you change it to 1 above?
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
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